vagrant_puppet

Vagrant setup spinning up single/multiple boxes and provisioning them with Puppet

Vagrant boxes

You can choose OS by either setting environment variable OS or directly editing the Vagrantfile:

- C5    Centos 5      (wandisco/centos-5-64)
- C6    Centos 6      (wandisco/centos-6-64)
- C7    Centos 7      (wandisco/centos-7)
- D6    Debian 6      (wandisco/debian-6-64)
- D7    Debian 7      (wandisco/debian-7-64)
- D8    Debian 8      (wandisco/debian-8-64)
- D9    Debian 9      (wandisco/debian-9-64)
- U12   Ubuntu 12.04  (wandisco/ubuntu-12.04-64)
- U14   Ubuntu 14.04  (wandisco/ubuntu-14.04-64)
- U16   Ubuntu 16.04  (wandisco/ubuntu-16.04-64)
- S11   SLES 11 SP3   (wandisco/sles-11.3-64)
- S12   SLES 12 SP1   (wandisco/sles-12.1-64)
- F25   Fedora 25     (wandisco/fedora-25-64)
- F26   Fedora 26     (wandisco/fedora-26)
- F27   Fedora 27     (wandisco/fedora-27)

Variables

The following variables can be further adjusted to your needs:

N = ENV["N"] || "1"                      # Number of nodes to be created
IP_ADDR_PREFIX = "192.168.254.11"        # IP address prefix
HOSTNAME_PREFIX = "#{OS}-node".downcase  # Hostname prefix
DOMAIN = "example.com"                   # Domain name
CORES = 2                                # Number of CPU cores for each box
RAM = 2048                               # Amount of RAM for each box

EXTRA_DISK_SIZE = 0                      # Second hard drive size in MB (set 0 to disable)
EXTRA_DISK_FILE = "sdb.vdi"              # Second hard drive filename

Highlights

• The Vagrantfile supports both Puppet version 3.x and 4.x
• List of Puppet modules to be provisioned can be set by editing file environments/default/manifests/site.pp
• The VMs are deployed in a private network, each one can communicate with others using both IP addresses and hostnames
• Passwordless SUDO is configured for user vagrant
• Passwordless SSH between boxes is configured for user root
• The WANdisco Vagrant boxes can be found in Vagrant Cloud

Example

To spin up a Centos 6 environment with 3 nodes, run:

$ N=3 OS=C6 vagrant up